Welcome to R-Ladies St. Louis

Wrangling Data in the Tidyverse

October 4, 2022

Materials for tonight

What is R-Ladies?

  • R-Ladies is a world-wide organization with the mission of promoting gender diversity in the R community

  • Started in San Francisco in 2012 and now has 206 chapters and more than 93,000 members globally (check out rladies.org for a Shiny dashboard)

R-Ladies St. Louis

Started in September 2017 by Jenine Harris and Chelsea West

Co-organizers for 2022-23 include:

  • Jenine Harris (Washington University)
  • Mary Painter (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  • Shelly Cooper (Washington University)
  • Crystal Lewis (Freelance Consultant)
  • Laura Rose (Hinge Health)

2022 Fall Schedule

Each week in October we will be featuring an Introductory R topic during our OctobeR ExtRavaganza

  • Tonight: Wrangling Data in the Tidyverse with Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo (Organization)
  • Next Tuesday Oct.11: Intro to Iteration: for loops and functions with Merve Ileri Tayar (Washington University)
  • Monday Oct.17: Clinical reporting with gtsummary with Daniel Sjoberg (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
  • Thursday Oct.27: Intro to Quarto with Isabella Velasquez (Posit)

Announcements

  • We will be recording this talk

    • Feel free to turn off your cameras if you do not want to be recorded
  • Use the chat to ask questions (to everyone or directly to the host)


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About tonight’s speaker

  • Joscelin received her doctoral degree in Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience at Georgetown University, where she focused on children’s cognitive development and factors such as bilingualism and media.
  • She currently works at Penn State as a Postdoctoral Fellow looking at Parent-Child brain activity synchrony and temperament development.
  • On June of 2022, Joscelin also joined the team of “R for the Rest of Us” as its first intern.